Kuwaiti national soccer team

State of Kuwait
Daulat al-Kuwait

Nickname (s)	Al Azraq (The Blue)
Association	Kuwait Football Association
confederacy	AFC
Technical sponsor	uhlsport
Head coach	Thamer Enad (interim)
Record scorer	Bashar Abdullah (75)
Record player	Bader al-Mutawa (178)
Home stadium	Jaber Al-Ahmad International Stadium
FIFA code	KUW
FIFA rank	147th (1060 points) (as of July 16, 2020)
First jersey Second jersey
statistics
First international Kuwait 2-2 Libya ( Casablanca , Morocco ; September 3, 1961 )
Biggest win Kuwait 20-0 Bhutan ( Kuwait City , Kuwait ; February 14, 2000 )
Biggest defeats Egypt 8-0 Kuwait ( Casablanca , Morocco ; September 4, 1961 ) Portugal 8-0 Kuwait ( Leiria , Portugal ; November 19, 2003 )
Successes in tournaments
World Championship
Participation in the finals	1 ( first : 1982 )
Best results	1st final round 1982
Asian Championship
Participation in the finals	9 ( first : 1972 )
Best results	Winner 1980
(As of December 2, 2019)

The Kuwaiti national soccer team is the national team of the Gulf State of Kuwait . The national team is a member of the Asian continental association Asian Football Confederation and the world association FIFA .

history

The Kuwait Football Association (KFA) was founded in 1952 and joined FIFA in 1962. Even before joining FIFA, Kuwait took part in the 1961 Pan-Arab Games in Morocco , where the team won a point against Libya in their first game but lost the next four players, including one of their biggest defeats in an 8-0 draw to Egypt . In 1980 Kuwait became Asian champions and in 1982 Kuwait took part in a soccer world championship for the first time .

In qualifying for the 2006 World Cup , Kuwait threw the favored Chinese out of the race, but was unable to qualify in the further course.

On October 29, 2007 , FIFA decided to suspend Kuwait from all international competitions until further notice. The reason given was government interference in association affairs.

On November 9, 2007 , FIFA temporarily lifted the suspension. Should the Kuwaiti Football Association fail to meet its obligations, the suspension will come back into force.

Kuwait played in the third round of qualifying for the 2010 World Cup against Iran , the United Arab Emirates and Syria . In the course of the qualification, the team only got four points from six games and was eliminated from the bottom of the group.

In 2010 Kuwait won the West Asian Championship in Jordan.

Kuwait is u. a. with 10 championship titles in the golf cup record winner of this soccer competition, which takes place every 2 to 3 years.

The Kuwaiti Football Association was suspended with immediate effect on October 16, 2015. The suspension will only be lifted if the KFA and its members (the clubs) can carry out their activities and obligations independently.

Participation in the Olympic Games

1900 to 1968	not participated
1972 in Munich	not qualified
1976 in Montreal	not qualified
1980 in Moscow	Quarter finals
1984 in Los Angeles	not qualified
1988 in Seoul	not qualified

After 1988 the senior national team stopped taking part in the Olympic Games and the qualifying games. The Olympic team participated in 1992 and 2000 , but were eliminated in the preliminary round.

Participation in Kuwait in the World Cup

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• 1930 to 1970 - no participation
• 1974 to 1978 - did not qualify
• 1982 - preliminary round
• 1986 to 2018 - not qualified

Participation in Kuwait in the Asian Football Championship

• 1972 - preliminary round
• 1976 - second place
• 1980 - Asian champion
• 1984 - third place
• 1988 - preliminary round
• 1992 - did not qualify
• 1996 - fourth place
• 2000 - quarter-finals
• 2004 - preliminary round
• 2007 - did not qualify
• 2011 - preliminary round
• 2015 - preliminary round
• 2019 - disqualified

Participation in Kuwait in the West Asian Football Championship

• 2000 to 2008 - did not participate
• 2010 - winner
• 2012 - preliminary round
• 2013/14 - fourth place
• 2019 - preliminary round
• 2021 - qualified

Games against German-speaking national soccer teams

	date	place	Home team	result	Visiting team
1.	01/26/1990	Kuwait City	Kuwait	1: 2	GDR
2.	05/09/2002	Freiburg in Breisgau	Germany	7-0	Kuwait

So far there have been no games against Austria, Liechtenstein and Switzerland.

Record player

rank	Surname	Calls	Gates	position	Period
01	Bader al-Mutawa	178 (175)	51	attack	2003–0000
02	Waleed Jumah	135	07th	midfield	2002-2014
03	Bashar Abdullah	134	75	attack	1996-2007
04th	Mesaed Nada Al-Enezi	125	20th	Defense	2002-2015
05	Nawaf El-Khaldi	114	00	goal	2000-2014
06th	Jarah Al Ataiqi	111	04th	midfield	2001-2013
07th	Wail Al-Habashi	109 (<100)	16	midfield	1986-1997
08th	Nohayer Al-Shammari	109	02	Defense	1996-2009
09	Jamal Mubarak	107	09	Defense	1994-2004
10	Mahboub Juma'a Mubarak	103 (99)	04th	Defense	1976-1990
11	Fahad Awadh Shaheen	100	04th	Defense	2005-2015

As of December 2, 2019 (games counted by FIFA on December 4, 2019 in brackets)

Trainer

Ali Othman (1955) Ahmed Abu Taha (1957) Edmund Majowski (1958) Ljubiša Broćić (1962) Mohammed Abdu Saleh Al Wahsh (1964) Dimitri Tadić (1966–1969) Taha Al Touki (1970) Ljubiša Broćić (1971–1973) Hate Nasser (1973) Ljubiša Broćić (1973-1975) Mário Zagallo (1976–1978) Saleh Zakaria (1978) Carlos Alberto Parreira (1978-1983) Antônio Lopes (1983–1985) Malcolm Allison (1985-1986) Saleh Zakaria (1986) György Mezey (1986–1987) António Vieira (1987–1988) George Armstrong (1988) Miguel Pereira (1989) Otacílio Gonçalves (1989–1990) Luiz Felipe Scolari (1990)

Mohammed Karam (1990) Valmir Louruz (1990-1992) Paulo Campos (1992-1993) Gildo Rodrigues (1993) Jawad Maqseed (1993) Valery Lobanovsky (1993–1996) Milan Máčala (1996–1999) Dušan Uhrin (1999-2001) Berti Vogts (2001-2002) Radojko Avramović (2002-2003) Paulo César Carpegiani (2003-2004) Mohammed Ibrahem (2004) Johan Boskamp (2004-2005) Slobodan Pavković (2005) Mohammed Ibrahem (2005) Mihai Stoichiță (2005-2006) Saleh Zakaria (2006-2007) Rodion Gačanin (2007-2008) Mohammed Ibrahem (2008-2009) Goran Tufegdžić (2009-2013) Jorvan Vieira (2013-2014) Nabil Maaloul (2014-2018) Romeo Jozak (2018-2019) Thamer Enad (since 2019) interim

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The FIFA / Coca-Cola World Ranking. In: fifa.com. July 16, 2020, accessed July 21, 2020 . 
2. ↑ rsssf.com: 3rd Pan Arab Games, 1961 (Casablanca, Morocco)
3. ↑ FIFA excludes Kuwait
4. ^ Temporary lifting of Kuwait's suspension
5. ↑ Kuwait and Iran's WAFF Dominance ( memento of the original from October 5, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
6. ↑ Kuwait wins 10th Gulf Cup ( Memento of the original from December 9, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
7. ↑ Source for record players
8. ↑ FACT Sheet FIFA Century Club

Web links

• All games and results (as of August 17, 2005)
• Official website of the KFA (Arabic / English)